You are Victor Frankenstein, and the Creature you have created has just asked you to create a companion for him. He desires to have someone to share his life with after being rejected by society. What do you do?

Refer to the arguments (quote at least one directly) that Frankenstein and the Creature offer for and against making a female companion. Once a quote has been used, it cannot be reused. Can you think of any additional reasons for or against making a female companion? Whose side do you feel more sympathy for? What do you think Frankenstein should do? Cite textual evidence to support your response. You must reference a classmate's response in your argument. Write your responses in complete sentences using academic language.

I think that Frankenstein should create a companion for the creature. I think this because everybody deserves to be loved. The creature is rejected by society because of the way he looks, but if Frankenstein could create a person similar to the creature, I believe they could love each other. On page 80 of Frankenstein, the creature says, "at first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror." The creature is not happy with his looks and I believe that he needs someone who loves him because of who he is and won't immediately run away screaming. The least Frankenstein could do for the creature is create a companion for him.

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Ethan Forray-Molica

12/11/2016 06:07:41 pm

I agree with Lauren. I believe that if he had someone to love him then together they would do their own thing because they would be happy and live peacefully with each other.

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Brittany E Gardiner

12/9/2016 06:35:42 pm

Frankenstien should master a companion for the beast. In chapter 16 on page 101, it says that the "creature layed in the woods for several weeks miserable, and endeavouing to cure the wounds he has recieved". The reason I choose this part is because it takes a lot to cure a wound or the mistakes you get in life. The creature did make mistakes in his life, but he has a change to fix his mistakes he has done. Some times in our lifes we get hurt many times and you don't know why. You just have to forgive the people knowing what they did was terrible.

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Ryan Cronin

12/11/2016 05:57:16 pm

I have to disagree with Brittany. I do believe that people deserve forgiveness. Everybody makes mistakes, but some of those mistakes are bigger than others. When you have a case as severe as the creatures when he killed a person, I believe that it is beyond the point of forgiveness. Some might like to argue that he didn't know what he was doing. In my eyes that is a perfect reason not to side with the creature because if he didn't know what he was doing then, then how is he going to know what he is doing now.

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Ryan Cronin

12/10/2016 10:17:00 pm

"Shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world? Begone!". This is a quote from Victor Frankenstein on page 104. This is explains exactly why he should not listen to the creature. Why take the risk of creating another dangerous creature just like the monster? All of the harm that the original one has created already is bad enough, so just imagine if there was another force as capable as the other. There is a reason that the monster is the only one of his kind. He is abnormal in a negative way that can be dangerous to all the people.

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Dylan Catalano

12/11/2016 08:29:52 pm

This is so true but doesn't the monster need somebody to sympathize with and somebody to care for him?

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brendon swem

12/19/2016 12:53:23 pm

i agree with you ryan. the creature is not a good source to listen to.

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Ethan Forray-Molica

12/11/2016 12:57:47 pm

The Creature says that he is "shunned and hated by all mankind" including Victor. He also believes he cannot be accepted, and cannot be happy unless Victor creates a female creature for him, with who he would live "harmless and free from the misery I now feel" The Monster needs a being like himself to peacefully live in a "human" world.

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Ethan Forray-Molica

12/11/2016 01:07:08 pm

"Frankenstein! you belong then to my enemy--to him towards whom I have sworn eternal revenge; you shall be my first victim." This is a quote from when the Creature killed William. I believe that Frankenstein should create a female Creature so they both can live in peace.

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Jayson strozewski

12/11/2016 07:41:39 pm

I disagree with the creatures request for a mate because as he states in chapter 17 that he will take his mate and spend the rest of their lives in the jungles of South America he don't know if the girl(mate) will accept the creature to be her partner. They also don't know how the mates behavior, mood, or ability to understand will be especially seeing how the creatures actions show he has a lack for understanding. I opinion correlates with the quote that Ryan Cronin chose from the book that states "shall I create another like yourself, whose joint wickedness might desolate the world? Begone!"

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Sammi Luzadre

12/11/2016 08:30:56 pm

I disagree with you. I believe the creature should have a companion. I believe this because everyone deserves to have someone to love. Even if they do not fall in love, there could still be a potential friendship and until you are in that spot to where you have no where to go and no one to turn to, you cannot say he does not deserve someone.

Frankenstein should make a conpainion for the creature and the quote "You must create a female for me, with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being." The creature is lonely and he needs someone that will be able to relate to his grief and hardships in the world. The struggle of this is, trying to balance out to craziness with love. That is where the struggle will sprout.

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Lauren Capron

12/12/2016 05:49:32 pm

I agree with Dylan! The creature needs someone who will be there for him and somebody that will understand him.

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Sammi Luzadre

12/11/2016 08:48:50 pm

I believe the creature should have a female companion. I believe this because everyone deserves to have someone to love. On page 103 the creature states "I am alone, and miserable." He states this right after he gets denied companionship from two innocent children. He wants Victor to create someone like him who will understand what he is going through. I also believe no one should ever feel alone and go through what he is going through. Everyone deserves the right to love and friendship.

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Liz Kuntz

12/11/2016 10:37:53 pm

I totally agree!!! When people feel alone that is when they are most dangerous to not only themselves or anyone else around them.

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hunter crocker

1/12/2017 03:02:31 pm

i agree with liz! when one is lonely they start to think about bad things and some get to the point where they cant control themselves and make dangerous decisions! ya never know what could happen if he had a companion in his life.

Liz Kuntz

12/11/2016 10:36:29 pm

"I am malicious because I am miserable" on page 104 shows the point of view of the monster. I believe that Frankenstein should make a companion for the monster so he could be less miserable. He deserves to have someone to love and to be able to put all his time in to.

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Megan Ankrapp

12/11/2016 11:39:31 pm

I agree with this because I think if the monster had a companion he would leave Frankenstein alone more and not always scare him.

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Megan Ankrapp

12/11/2016 11:48:17 pm

Page 99 says, "as soon as I was convinced that no assistance could save any parts of the habitation, I quitted the scene, and sought for refuge in the woods." I think that Victor should go ahead and make the monster a companion. I think everyone deserves to have a mother person and not feel lonely. Also, I think that if he made a companion for he monster, the monster would leave victor alone a lot more because he will have someone else.

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Cheyanne

12/12/2016 08:33:13 pm

I Victor desire to end the life which I had bestowed in my home.

But on that same note, Victor refuses to admit to anyone the horro he had created.

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Ryan Ferguson

12/16/2016 03:13:26 pm

Well this is a little late but yes the monster does feel lonely, and a bit suicidal which kinda sucks. Somewhere in the book I remember reading about the monster (fun fact: his name is Adam which is a biblical reference to the first man CREATED) saying that he was going to end the life on which Victor "wantonly bestowed".

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Brendon Swem

12/19/2016 12:51:22 pm

I disagree, I don't think victor needs to make a companion for the creature. The creature was already to much for victor to control. in chapter 17 victor thinks about making a friend for the creature but decides not to. The creature was a failed experiment why make another one.

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hunter crocker

1/12/2017 03:08:44 pm

"I prepared myself for a multitude of reverses my operations might be incessantly baffled, and at last my work be imperfect, yet when I considered the improvement which every day takes place in science and mechanics, I was encouraged to hope my present attempts would at least lay the foundations of future success"
in chapter 4
i agree with making a companion for the creature. Frankenstein stats here that your experiment may fail but at least you have know why it failed and can fix the mistakes on the second creature to make it better. have someone for the creatures to loves.